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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

2-26-14 Ed Notes Online

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Chicago: Saucedo teachers to announce ISAT test boycott!!
Chicago Teacher Union supports action. It is inconceivable that the UFT would do the same.Big news today of a teacher boycott at one school. More info to come...http://www.coreteachers.org/4pm-press-conference-saucedo-academy-teachers-to-boycott-isat/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 25, 2014CONTACT:Sarah Chambers, Special Education Teacher at Saucedo(Ms. Chambers will be teaching throughout the da


The Lies Randi Tells on Twitter

Randi Weingarten ‏@rweingarten  @beth_dimino @pfh1964-be4 u criticize know the facts-@uft had a rank & file comm including all caucuses & got overwhelming support at DA mtgWhile New Action enthusiastically supported the UFT charters, ICE -- if I am not mistaken, a caucus in the UFT, opposed it with Michael Fiorillo leading the charge and in fact speaking against it at the DA. At a charter


2-25-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: A Decade of Cover-up at PS 106: Who Protected Marcella Sills?My column for The Wave, to be published Feb. 28, 2014. A Decade of Cover-up at PS 106: Who Protected Marcella Sills?By Norm ScottThe media seems to be enthralled over Marcella Sills’ magic disappearing act as principal of PS 106 in Far Rockaway ever since the NY Post reported the story a short time after Bill de Blasio a